Universal has been trying for years to successfully reboot the horror classics of the 1930s that so defined the studio then, movies like Frankenstein, Dracula, The Wolfman, The Mummy, etc. In the case of the latter, the 2017 attempt with Tom Cruise was roundly panned, and a hoped-for new incarnation of The Bride of Fra…
EXCLUSIVE: A big move just happened. Scott Henderson is leaving Paradigm and we hear he’s heading to CAA.
Henderson reps Aquaman director and Conjuring franchise architect James Wan, who counts well over $6.3 billion at the global box office (in directing, EP and producing credits) and the rep has been with the…
Something evil lurks in the shadows — or does it? Here’s the first trailer for The Invisible Man, Blumhouse resurrection of the classic Universal Pictures horror franchise. And it’s not your grandfather’s unseen monster.
Cecilia Kass (Elisabeth Moss) is trapped in a violent, controlling relationship with a wealthy and…
UPDATED, 12:12 PM:Universal said today that its Blumhouse remake of The Invisible Man will arrive on February 28, two weeks earlier that planned. It was set to face off against Warner Bros’ Godzilla vs. Kong and now faces United Artists Releasing’s hidden-camera prank pic Bad Trip.
The news comes about an hour after…
“I just had an idea about a computer that was controlling a human, puppeteering them but the human was still in there and was involuntarily having to do these things,” shared Upgrade‘s writer and director Leigh Whannell during his stop at the Deadline Studio at SXSW. Ahead of its June 1 theatrical release, the…
“The Bleeding Edge: A New Generation of Horror” panel at SXSW started off with a loaded question from Stage13’s Two Sentence Horror Stories filmmaker Vera Miao: “How does your identity shape how you are as a horror filmmaker?” Genre mega-producer Jason Blum immediately answered in a joking tone, “That’s a racist…
Universal Pictures has retitled the fourth chapter of its Insidious horror franchise. After two films about a couple whose son becomes a vessel for ghosts and a 2015 prequel, Insidious: The Last Key returns Lin Shaye as Dr. Elise Rainier, the brilliant parapsychologist who faces her most fearsome and personal haunting…
Insidiousand Insidious: Chapter 2 screenwriter Leigh Whannell will return to pen a third installment of the hit horror franchise for Blumhouse Productions, Entertainment One, FilmDistrict, and Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions. Conspicuously absent from today’s threequel announcement is Whannell’s longtime…
A sequel to the horror hit Insidious is in the works, with Leigh Whannell returning to write the script and James Wan in talks to once again direct. Jason Blum will produce through Blumhouse Productions and Brian Kavanaugh Jones, Oren Peli and Steven Schneider will be exec producers. Alliance Films is back as…
EXCLUSIVE: Evolution Entertainment partners Mark Burg and Oren Koules are splitting after 12 years. Burg has purchased the 50% of the management/production company owned by Koules. Burg has reconstituted the company and named former CAA agent-turned-producer Michael Menchel its new president.
This brings to an end a…
FilmDistrict finalized a distribution deal for Insidious, the horror film by original Saw writer/director James Wan and Leigh Whannell, and produced by Paranormal Activity architects Oren Peli, Jason Blum and Steven Schneider. The deal was long-rumored. FilmDistrict was started by Bob Berney and Peter Schlessel…
